Today we will look at one more rather unknown facet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as scientists who integrated and even evolved a new kind of spirituality and a new kind of science.
Everything in creation has a material side as well as a spiritual truth that upholds it. Connecting the two is a whole mass of subtle and occult forces [...]
... everything in creation has a material side as well as a spiritual truth that upholds it. Connecting the two is a whole mass of subtle and occult forces that form a watershed area between science and spirituality.
We must uncover spiritual truths hiding behind all these stories and legends and philosophies, since to discover them again through a great personal tapasya is nearly impossible in our modern age, with such short life spans and a thoroughly materialistic orientation.
Questions include (1) who created the Creator, (2) achieving unity from within outwards, (3) physics, science and spirituality, (4) imagination and reality, (5) our role in the various challenges and threats to the earth.
Selections from Conversations by the Mother (TEXT)
"I think one of the greatest difficulties in understanding things comes from an arbitrary simplification which puts spirit on one side and matter on the other. It is this foolishness that makes you incapable of understanding anything..."
The Moon occupied an important place in folk lore, myths, art, poetry, mystic literature much before Science began its expeditions. On the 50th anniversary of the first man on the Moon we take up this subject touching upon some of its aspects, especially in view of man’s cosmic travels to the Moon and beyond.
Surely a time must come when science and spirituality will unite, but for that to happen both have to change much. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey recorded in 2010.